124 Quotes by Augustine of Hippo

I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.

how shall we be beautiful? By loving the One who is always beautiful. The more love grows in you, the more beauty grows: for love itself is the beauty of the soul.

Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable?

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but what is worse the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Surely we will not dare say that these laws are unjust, or rather, that they are not laws at all. For it seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.